Reenforced pocket



H. KIRSCHENBAUM REENFORCED POCKET Sept. 20 1927. I 1,643,162

Filed Sept. 24, 1926 WITNESSES I INVENTOR B4 37,05 M4 I lfnymcm lfirsdzenlamh 54 M b n ATTORNEYS Patented Sept. 20, 1927.

PATENT OFFICE,

HAYMAN KIRSCHENBAUM, NEW YORK, N. Y.

BEENFORCED POCKET.

Applicationvfiled September 24, 1926. Serial No. 137,527.

This invention relates to garment pockets, and has especial reference to reenforcements for the pockets.

The principal object of the present invention is the provision of a substantial and effective reenforcement for a garment pocket. applied at the opposite ends;of the hand opening of the pocket to prevent tearing of the wall portions of the pocket sidewise with respect to the line of the pocket opening as well as endwise thereof.

The nature of the invention and its distinguishing features and advantages will appear when the following specification is read in connection with the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a View of a portion of a garmentshowing the hand opening of a pocket and the preferred form of reenforcement at each end of the hand opening.

Figure 2 is a sectional view taken on the line 22 of Figure 1.

- Figure 3 is a view illustrating a modified form of reenforcement.

Referring now more particularly to Fig- .ures 1 and 2, it will be apparent, that there has been illustrated a portion of a garment 10 which embodies a pocket, and the said pocket has the usual hand opening 11. The

pocket illustrated is one which does not have associated therewith the usual closing flap, but it is to be understood that the re-' enforcements of the present invention may be applied to such flap type of pocket. Hitherto, reenforcements have been applied to portions of the garment, or in other words the wall portions of a pocket to prevent tearing of the said portions, but while the reenforcements employed prevent tearing enclwise, they do not prevent tearing of the wall portions of the pocket sidewise with respect to the line of the opening of the pocket. Therefore, there is employed in accordance with the present invention, similar reenforcements 12 which may be of any preferred stout material, such as leather, which will be extended beyond the ends of the opening, and at opposite sides thereof. In-Figure 1 there is shown a chevron or V-shaped reenforcement, there being one at each end of the opening 11. Each reenforcement 12 is attached to wall portions of the pocket by a line of stitching 13 which extends along the marginal edge of the reenforcement. As

applied,each'reenforcement 12 will extend l:

in line with the pocket opening beyond the end or corner thereof as at 14, and will also extend at opposite sides of the opening as at 15 so as to provide portions within the region of the wall portions of the pocket between the ends or corners of the hand opening 11. Under such provision the wall portions of the pocket at the opening 11 are prevented from tearing sidewise with respect to the pocket opening as well as endwise.

c In accordance with the present invention other types of reenforcements may be used,

such for instance, as the type shown in Fig ure 3. The reenforcement 16 shown inFigure 3 1s circular and 1s secured to a wall portion of the garment by a line of stitching 17 along the marginal edges thereof. The said reenforcement 16 is cut radially inward so that when applied will provide a portion 18 beyond the end of the hand opening of the pocket and portions 19 at opposite sides of the opening of the pocket a distance from the end of the opening. The present type of reenforcement, like the reenforcement 12 prevents tearing sidewise as well as endwise of pocket portions of the garment, with respect to the line of the opening of the pocket.

I claim V 1. A' garment pocket reenforced at the corners of the hand opening of'the pocket, by flexible reenforcements respectively secured to outside garment portions of the pocket, and each of the reenforcements extended beyond its related corner and adjacent opposite sides of the hand opening in wardly from the corner. 1

2. A garment pocket reenforced by a flexible reenforcement at each corner of the hand opening of the pocket, each reenforcement sewed to an outside portion of the garment by a line of stitching along the marginal edges of the reenforcement, each of said reenforcements being of V-shape to provide a portion beyond its related corner of the hand opening and a portion adjacent each side of the hand opening directed inwardly from the corner. 

